BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER

By Nina MENKES

CINEPHIL - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2022

Based on Nina Menkes' acclaimed talk "Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema", "Brainwashed" explores how shot design intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2022
Panorama
Docaviv 2022
Sundance 2022
CPH:DOX 2022
Jeonju Int'l FF 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nina MENKES
    • Synopsis
    • Building on her influential cinematic talk, Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema, film director Nina Menkes takes us on an eye-opening journey through the gendered politics of shot design. Using more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favorites and cult classics as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, Brainwashed reveals a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that, from early cinema to the present day, infiltrates some of our favorite movies.